well-intended

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adj. well-intentioned

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Apart from the fact that you would expect college educators to know that wasting resources on well-intended but largely useless weight interventions based solely on “healthy” eating and exercise are not an evidence-base approach to weight management (due to their rather modest effectiveness), assuming that it is even remotely possible to identify individuals in need of “lifestyle education” by simply calculating their BMI (or measuring their waist circumference), is ridiculous.

Of course I'm over simplifying it to make my point, but the fact remains that much of the world's failure to make lasting improvements in addressing hunger and malnutrition has been due to the well-intended but, in hindsight, misguided development policies that drove investment out of the agriculture sector.